Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fall of 1978, Fran Tate had the notion to open a Mexican restaurant in Barrow, Alaska. She had canvassed the town-there are, if you count the transients, roughly 3,000 people there, 80% of them Eskimos-and Mexican food is what they said they favored, overwhelmingly. The more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea, and one day, in a fit of enterprise, she seized a board, a piece of two-by-four, it being the nearest thing at hand, and drew her plans on it-the kitchen, the dining room seating arrangement, all that. Fran...
...similar crowd and atmosphere can be found at Chi-Chi's (1001 Mass. Ave.), the ersatz Mexican restaurant near the Orson Welles Theater. Margaritas with nachos and refried beans are de igucur here, but more than one have grumbled that the frosty beverage does not have enough alcohol to slosh...
Many of the Indians who fled to Mexico do not speak Spanish. Conditions in the camps are such that they continually suffer from malnutrition, tuberculosis and gastrointestinal disease. Mexican officials have been known to beat, rape or otherwise abuse the refugees; often the officials extort bribes in exchange for a promise not to send refugees back across the border. Landowners pay Guatemalans $1 a day for their labor, vs. a Mexican minimum daily wage...
...almost no water. Being accustomed to breezy higher altitudes, they worried about whether they could survive in Campeche's torrid jungle. Conditions were so bad that a group of Mexico's Catholic bishops condemned the transfer, saying that the refugees were being "abandoned to their luck." The Mexican government responded by naming a new director for the agency responsible for refugees, its third in two years. The move was not expected to ease the problem...
...Philadelphia conference, Jacques de Larosière, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, and Paul Volcker, Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, urged bankers to stretch out repayment schedules for Mexican loans and reduce that country's interest rates, which now run as high as 13.5%. Mexico deserves such a break, said De Larosière, because it has made substantial progress toward solving its economic problems. Since 1982 the country has cut a 100% inflation rate almost in half and doubled its annual trade surplus to $13.6 billion...